"If you ever go to Graham's Company and happen to see Diana and Hubert, just ignore them, don't kill them. I'm the one who's got business with that family. "
Alexander watches how Eve nonchalantly spoke about the stepsibling who was the reason why his lover is alone in another country. He frowns a He remembers his interaction with that scheming woman.
"Your stepsister really has the talent to fool people around " they reached the foyer and Eve looks back over her shoulder and realized Alexander had lean close to her.
"I just find it laughable that many would believe her without knowing you truly " he kisses her lips and she lets him, it was for a short moment but it still shakes her core. "I guess I'm lucky to be the only one to know you, Molina "
Molina closes her eyes as she smiles and leans her head on his chest, Alexander kisses her head tenderly as he embraces her unaware of her thoughts.
Alexander left after being reassured with a kiss and Eve walks back to her kitchen only to pause from her movements. She was looking at the glass wall just across the living room slowly headed towards it and Eve reached on time to see Alexander exiting the building as he strides towards the awaiting car, she watched as the afternoon sunlight touched his figure and as if Alexander knew she was looking, he turned around looked at the glass wall that separated them.
"I'm sorry Alexander, " Eve smiled knowing he won't notice anything else from her expression because of their distance.
I'm sorry for deceiving you.
With Alexander returning to B Country, she could finally have a moment with her own thoughts and execute the next plan.
Back at B Country.
1:00 pm
Grahams Company.
Ethan Millers was currently watching Diana full of concern and worry as she cries for help into his arms, her screams alarmed the secretaries outside and when they entered the room, they were shocked and had quickly called the ambulance. Diana watched as her father's figure was lying on the ground and next to him was a broken cup of tea.
The assistant secretary was talking on the phone while the head secretary proceeded to check on the man's condition and his pulse.
Ethan was just talking with both Grahams at the CEO's office about his and Diana's relationship when suddenly Hubert Graham who was just drinking ice tea, started to cough painfully, blood coming out of his mouth and then fainted minutes later, the cup in his hands fell and Diana started to screamed. She was terrified at the scene in front of her.
Diana told them what happened and Ethan comforted her.
When the paramedics arrived, they inspected Hubert Graham for any external injury before placing his unconscious body on the stretcher and carried him while trying to revive his heart.
It was chaotic, the media had gotten the news of Graham Company's CEO being sent straight to the ICU. The people had talked about it online and even during their meetings.
After a day when everyone around the business industry wouldn't have any more shocking news, a rumor about Hubert Graham was said to have little time left had made the Graham Family the center of the spotlights. This shocking rumor spread and cause people to share their theories and questions.
Who will inherit the Graham Company when Hubert Graham dies?
Will there be a fight for the right to claim Graham's inheritance?
Will the disowned daughter returned to cause a scene now that Hubert is dying?
With Diana Graham and Ethan Miller's close relationship, it was obvious to the rest that they will end up together.
So the attention on Diana Graham was understandable.
The news and gossip don't get unnoticed by Eve as the topic about the dying old Graham and rumored-engaged Diana was the content of everyone's messages.
It was 2 weeks after Alexander left for an urgent business that she decided to go out.
At the moment Eve was having fun reading through group chats of influential members of the society, especially those close to Diana. With this news all around their social circle, it was normal to see Molina's name gets drag to the mud as they give all good words to Diana.
" Hmmm " Eve was sitting alone at her table inside a café, soft jazz music playing in the background as customers chat quietly around, giving a nice atmosphere inside the establishment.
She wanted to work on programming and needed a change of space, her apartment did get a bit stuffy at some point. With her apartment building just across from the café, she decided to drag herself to the establishment and ordered drinks and a few desserts.
With no Alexander Miller to distract her, she began making the final preparations for her next move.
It was a pain joining the meetings both virtual and face-to-face for the past years but Eve had to keep showing Molina's face around the company's shareholders meeting for networking and making connections, it was also needed to proceed with her next step.
Just recently she did open up an offer about buying the whole stocks and even the company through an email. This resulted in a lot of surprising replies and fruitful negotiations.
With a few unplanned virtual meetings scheduled for the past few days, Molina was able to process the documents for turnover as she sent her lawyers to handle it.
Even if it's a leading multinational company, it was still facing problems internally and needed more investors to enable them further in manufacturing and creating new products and services. Eve did not only received the equity but with her number of investments, it returned to her tenfold than she calculated.
With Eve being able to see how this world's current trends work and see where the wind goes, she wanted to choose a promising company seeing how the game, online shopping, and streaming industry will change the tides in the future.
With fast changes in technology and trends, it was clear that the future of Dimension Corporation was bright.
Also, Eve wanted to be able to test her software and programs, and sell them to the company, even fixing some issues with their present programs and codes by herself. If she could, she wants to be able to tweak a few things. Just to make things easier than just hovering around the networks and bypassing their security every day, waiting for them to upload it to the system.
It would also be a lot easier to give some changes during product design meetings if she becomes the CEO, although it's uncommon for a newly appointed CEO to intervene in the production and planning, she still plans to do that.
She wanted to introduce to the world a different kind of gaming and online experience.
A notification pops out of her lower left of the screen and she was pulled back to reality, she looks at her screen to see what it was about, her eyes catches the words " Congratulations Ms. Sylvia Molina, CEO of Dimension Corporation.. "
Eve smiles to herself, not even checking the whole message. She lower her hands and grab her cup of milk tea and takes a sip.
With her finally becoming the highest buyer of the company and owning it, she should go get some work done with the recent products. Eve plans to go to work as a boss-slash-engineer starting Monday.
Ting!
A sudden call notification from her phone catches her attention. Eve thought it was from the company and was about to leave it be when she grabs her phone, her finger was about to press the reject button when she pauses, her finger stops and she saw the name of the caller with a photo displayed on the lock screen that she didn't take.
She didn't realize that she had smiled seeing the caller ID, which Alexander named his contact.
Caller: My Husband ♡
Eve accepts the call and placed her phone near her ear.
" Baby, my love, you're husband misses you. It seems like it has been too long since I saw your face." Alexander's deep and matured voice filled with fondness greets her first and Eve could help but laugh lovingly.
Eve couldn't help but shake her head, they text and call each other when Alexander has his free time in between his work and before Eve goes to sleep and also the time she wakes up. Not to mention, they just Video Chat each other just a few hours ago.
This man is really...
"I'm sorry, I think you got the wrong person " She relaxes her shoulder and leans her back to comfortably rest her head. Taking in the sound of his voice makes her a bit excited to listen.
"I don't have a husband and only gotten myself a boyfriend, you see "